| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics - Is the game aesthetically pleasing? | #6 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #12 | 3.233 | 3.233 |
| Completeness - Is it an unfinished tech-demo, prototype or a complete game? | #14 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Gameplay - How fun is it to play? | #14 | 2.944 | 2.944 |
| Audio - Does the game have nice sfx and music? | #15 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Originality - Does the game innovate or try something new? | #27 | 2.556 | 2.556 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Thanks for playing out game. Most of the assets were done by Dan (our artist) like the walls, floors, furniture, lifts, etc. were hand made by him. The Zombie was from the Asset Store and so were the guns and weapon/pickup effects. Here's his Sketchfab page:
The small tiles are a good catch. They're not the traditional Dungeon Crawler size but we felt they made the maps feel more claustrophobic, which is what we were after. The mini-map was a last minute addition and it's dynamically generated from the Tiled map that you load in at runtime so we were pleased with it.
Sorry about the (programmer) humor, We were trying to capture some of the Duke-Nukem humor from the 90s and give you a distinct memory in the first level to take away with you. The headbanging zombie at the start was Dan's idea but part of the humor. Did you see the Pause screen and the Level Failed screen? (again programmer humor.. sorry).
This was fun.
I thought the game was overall a bit slow, I did not like the small steps, cooldowns could have bit slower or later weapons (or all weapons, enemies too) more lethal, recharging energy maybe faster ...
However multiple details reveal a good level of polish, the code you could miss is double-hinted (searching and typing codes was cool, anyway), the maps on the wall are definitely cool, there are the damage on the helmet and probably more things.
Good job.
Thanks for playing our game. The small steps are a good point. We already had the wall set from a different game we're working on which is why they weren't the classic large square. Later weapons were more powerful and used up more charge per shot but shot slower, but balancing was definitely something we only had one pass at. We had an Excel spreadsheet that I'll put on our DevLog that shows the numbers we balanced with. The recharging was a bit slow. We lowered it as we realized you could sit on the recharge station and have infinite ammo while firing!
Thanks for picking up on the helmet damage texture and the minimaps. We were really pleased with these too.
We're glad you enjoyed it. Good luck in the jam!
Thanks for playing our game. It looks like you were bitten by the missing decal bug, sorry about that. We've not managed to reproduce it on 8 machines we've got access to so far. It's really got us stumped. As for the thought that went into it, two of us put in 12-16 hours a day for 7 days straight and it was a massive amount of work. Even though we did use some asset store assets (weapons and weapon effects and the Zombie!), we also created some during the jam too. You can see what we used to create the game on our devlog which may help you decide if we did put the effort in or not:
https://rebello.itch.io/robots-and-zombies/devlog/369937/things-we-used-to-make-...
We also showed a full play through of the game, which for a player who knew the maps takes about 40 minutes, so there's plenty of content in there:
We tracked the problem down us not parsing floating point numbers from our Tiled map files using CurtureInfo.InvariantCulture. If you want to give it another try you can set your regional format on Windows to be UK or US or alternatively try out this patched version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wTm60Y_iaD98PfJrNmkNUkNvXkPLtlj8/view?usp=shari...
Thanks again for trying out our game.
Although the assets look shop bought, many of them were in fact created by Dan (our artist). Here's the large robot, Chunk, on his Sketchfab page. He creates these in Blender and textures them in Substance Painter.
Thanks for playing our game. We did want it to be funny and creepy at the same time, so we're glad we hit the mark on that one. We're a two man team of a programmer and an artist so it's good that you picked up that we were a bit weaker in the sound area. That's the third person we need next time around. Thanks again, Rebello (Adam&Dan)
Thank DamienDe. We're creating a DevLog post that explains what assets we had going into the jam and what we created during it. We did use a lot of asset store assets but it's often hard to get them to gel in a cohesive way and sometimes you can spend more time getting them to work the way you want than creating your own. A lot of Dan's time (our artist) was spent creating the levels themselves, which we did in Tiled. Check out the Streaming Assets folder, you can even edit them yourself or create new levels. Most programming time was spent handling the door codes, screen layouts and transitions, AI for the enemy, game load/save (on end of level), mouse/keyboard input, minimap and tiledmap loading. Also time was spent integrating all the asset store assets. The walls, furniture, terminals, storage lockers, etc. are all a single trim sheet, created in Substance Painter from a Blender file, and the walls themselves are just boxes with no geometry. Dan did an amazing job there, they really look detailed but it's all faked with a clever texture map. It would be a challenge to do this with no premade assets but we're up for it next year!
Hi DamienDe, we just published a DevLog on itch that shows what we used to make the game. Ping us if you have any questions:
https://rebello.itch.io/robots-and-zombies/devlog/369937/things-we-used-to-make-...
Thanks for that. We're glad you didn't get bitten by the decal bug that meant you couldn't see codes on the walls. We've tried 7 machines now and not managed to reproduce it. Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Inkus Games, thanks for playing our game. Good suggestion on the rotating if you free look enough we thought about it ourselfves but didn't follow up. Glad you likes the MiniMap, it was a stretch goal but I had a development itch to scratch there. It was surprisingly easy in the end. The sounds track seemed very fitting and let us have the Zombie headbanging on the start menu (another itch based on Dan's idea). We'll post a working decal version post-jam, if we can work out what's happening. It's not gone wrong on the 7 machines we've tried so far, it's got us stumped! Your game was great BTW, we really loved the artwork!
We tracked the problem down us not parsing floating point numbers from our Tiled map files using CurtureInfo.InvariantCulture. If you want to give it another try you can set your regional format on Windows to be UK or US or alternatively try out this patched version:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wTm60Y_iaD98PfJrNmkNUkNvXkPLtlj8/view?usp=shari...
Hello
Got around to playing the game thanks for the patch version.
Love the atmosphere and visuals a lot. Zombies killing me too fast got to learn some tactics and try again, want to reach the robots.
I think the aesthetic and atmosphere really leans to an intriguing story opportunity. What’s going on how did this happen. Are we going to solve the problem, does it happen often and so on.
Would love to see the Zombie AI work a bit better they appear not to be able to navigate around obstacles.
It seems we have a bug where the code decals aren't appearing on some people's systems. If the storage locker looks like this it's broken for you. Really sorry about that. It didn't happen on the three machines we tested on. If you're stuck like this. ping me on discord and I'll send you a cheat code. Thanks for playing our game.
- Update: We hear you on the tile size. We wanted the game to feel claustrophobic as if you were trapped in narrow corridors that restricted your ability to get away from things easily. It's not quite the classic Dungeon Master style but we felt it worked well for the game. Next time we'll go more classic styled!
Sorry you had a problem with the door codes. We tried to add a bit of humour in there. I spent 3 hours getting the zombie to head bang to the intro music (Dan's idea) by sampling the audio clip volume. Probably time not well spent but the effect is cool and I had fun. Thanks for playing our game.
Thanks for playing. It's tough to add variety with just a game two code reveal mechanisms and three monsters, we hear you, but it's all we had time for in 7 days. The code reveals do get more obscure as the levels progress and the monsters get harder (but the weapons get bigger!), that's all we could do. The "Rest Room" was another gratuitous waste of development time but I had that itch that I had to scratch! Glad you enjoyed it.
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